Short Film Block - Animated

A young birdwatcher runs for his life after witnessing a bird-on-bird murder. When he finds himself cornered, it's man versus bird, and only one can make it out alive.

Burder

Oskar Salomonowitz, the 12-year-old son of filmmakers Anja Salomonowitz and Virgil Widrich, had drawn 206 frames of a flip book when he died in an accident. Using the remaining blank sheets, his father continued drawing the film. Winner of 13 international film awards!

There is Exactly Enough Time

Just a slightly unorthodox mob hit.

Fly-By Shooting

As the first animated film to star a character with Down syndrome, Freebird is the coming-of-age story of Jon, a boy who learns to navigate the world with a loving mother, an absent father, a classroom bully, and a life-long crush. In 5 minutes, we watch 45 years of his life flash by.

Freebird

In a snowy forest in medieval Germany, Börn and his horse Gunnar come across a slain mother wolf and her frightened pup, Grey. Börn adopts the pup and raises Grey as a companion. A few years later, Börn, Grey and Gunnar enjoy a summer day together in the forest, when a wild wolf pack attacks the trio, endangering them all. As Börn prepares his bow and arrow to fight, Grey recalls the death of his mother and the arrow that killed her. Grey must make a decision: stand by his human friend, or take to the wild with those of his kind.

Grey

An animated autobiographical true story of having a severe case of brain cancer and trying to make sense of a world where people don't seem to know how to communicate about illness.

How To Lose Weight and Look Great

Set in Dublin after the pubs close. While telling God what he really thinks of him Ronan aggravates a bunch of Púca who were having a few drinks in a nearby dimension. From that point on, they do what they can to lure him onto the Nightlink to the afterlife.

Nightlink

Endless distractions threaten to destroy creativity.

On / Off

One day, the house cat King runs away from Nara's house. While wandering the outside world, he was captured by someone, and unfortunately sent to a strange operating room full of such captured wild cats!

Peanut Factory

Pimento! Follows a tiny goblin’s misadventures as she’s sent out on a special errand: stealing from the sprawling human-populated metropolis Ballyhoo! Only time will tell if she’s enough of a monster to commit heinous crimes—or if her moral compass will stand in her way!

Pimento!

A caring and prideful father builds a robot hoping for it to become a prominent doctor, but as the robot grows older, it pursues its dream of being in a rock and roll band, forcing the father to confront his pride before his relationship with the robot is destroyed entirely.

Recharged

The war has settled down, but a conflict is still escalating.

Stereotype

After being challenged by a snail, two creatures participate in a series of contests in order to find out "Who’s Better?" However, the absurd exercises and the rigged system undermine the legitimacy of this contest.

Who's Better

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The 2022 Omaha Film Festival highlights Narrative Feature Films, Documentaries, Short Films, Animated Short Films, and Nebraska Short Films from March 13 - April 2. Scroll through our selections, read synopses, watch trailers, and plan your festival! 

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